- Opportunity to join an ambitious company in a rapidly expanding market

- Lots of recent capital investment in site improvements and new machinery

- Further Investment planned over the next few years

Company Information:

My client is a market leading company who operate in a specialist market who supply to a wide array of different industries. The site has recently been expanded and is full of modern state of the art technology and machinery. They are a modern thinking company and have plans to expand and grow in the coming years.

You must have the following:

- Must have proven experience leading a team within a FMCG or Manufacturing background

- IT literate – fully versed in MS Office & SAP

- Good verbal and numerate skills

- Excellent communication skills

- Proactive: can deliver short actions to drive improvement

- Ability to engage effectively with the line/area team to maximize performance

- Able to work under pressure and deliver results to a defined deadline

- Ideally have an IOSH qualification

- All manufacturing backgrounds will be considered for the role including Packaging, Plastics, Food, Steel, Recycling, Pharmaceutical, Process

Role Information:

The position will be working on a 4 on 4off shift pattern including days and nights working a 6-6 shift pattern. The post holder will be responsible for 17 people working in their busy sort plant area of the business.

Main Purpose of Job:
To lead and take responsibility for one of eight shift area teams. To take accountability for five key metric areas for the area/shift: EHS, quality, service, finance (yield & labor costs) & people (engagement, training and attendance)
To fundamentally and proactively deliver short time frame objectives against each metric through engaging with the area shift team.

Key Tasks and Accountabilities:

- To promote a strong EHS culture: lead by example

- To demonstrate an engaging but challenging leadership style

- To actively be a part the asset care programme for the chosen asset group

- To promote team engagement in the structured performance improvement project

- To closely work with the operations manager/OpEx team to optimize plant/asset performance

- To deliver proactive area communication via shift huddles

- Timely completion of all relevant safety Near Miss reported issues.

- To activity participate in the departmental audit process: EHS,GMP.5S.

- To engage in the site OD programme to ensure the area/shift has the appropriate skills/flexibility

- To ensure shift surveillance is delivered

- Completion of all safety, operations, quality, process & reporting related documentation to a high standard of accuracy & legibility.